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Even though he's best known for crafting James Hetfield’s most striking and creative axes, Kenneth Lawrence doesn’t play guitar. He’s a bassist. As most bassists do, at age 14, he picked up the bass ...

There's no doubt that Kirk Hammett loves the "Greeny" guitar that he purchased that once belonged to Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green and Thin Lizzy's Gary Moore, but Hammett wasn't the first Metallica ...

Metallica guitar books are many — looking at you, Hal Leonard — but Metallica's James Hetfield is about to top previous publications with Messengers, his own upcoming book that documents his personal ...

Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett took to YouTube to wish ESP Guitars a very happy 50th Anniversary, the long-time endorsees checking in from their rehearsal room HQ, signature guitars in ...

Here’s why Metallica stopped using guitar amps live, according to James Hetfield‘s guitar tech. Metallica fans may or may not have even noticed that the rockers don’t have a bunch of amps lined up ...

In 1996, retired Back Bay High School English teacher Judy Schreiber fondly remembered one of her senior students from the Class of '82, telling the Los Angeles Times that she saved his essay, among ...